 Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up, So quick...  Catalogue - Page 37by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - 1898Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 424 pages
...dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied7 night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true" lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 556 pages
...dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross 'd, It stands... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 518 pages
...dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night,8 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say,— -Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to contusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | Cleeve - 1805 - 276 pages
...dream, Brief as the lightning in the colly'd night, That in a spleen unfolds both hcaren and earth, And ere a man hath power to say— Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. SHAKESPEARE, JLfORD Raby now thought it necessary to declare his sentiments to his. son respecting... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...fit. Brief as the lightning in the eollied night, That in a spleen unfolds both hcav'n and earth ; And, ere a man hath power to say, behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Staksp, 5. Melancholy ; hypochondriacal vapours. Thespteen with sullen vapours clouds the brain, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...coal, a word still used in the midland counties. Y2 That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say, — Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up:3 So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - 498 pages
...Christian of Theseus. 524. " I must employ you in some business.'" Business a trisyllable. 32(5. " And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! " The jaws of darkness do devour ii up." This thought, a little varied, occurs in Romeo and Juliet. Too sudden, Too like the lightning,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 414 pages
...Brief as the lightning in the collied night', That, in a spleen 10, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...13rief as the lightning in the colly'd ' niglijt 1'hat, in a spleen ', unlolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion. Iier. If then true lovers have been ever cross«*d. It... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 418 pages
...counties) to pour out ; from tomner, Danish. STEEVENS. That, in a spleen, unfolds6 both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up ; So quick bright things come to confusion. Her. If then true lovers have been ever cross'd, It stands... | |
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